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VMware Packer Plugin Examples

This directory contains a set of templates to illustrate how to run the plugin for different versions of VMware products, as VMware ESXi, VMware Fusion, VMware Player, and VMware Workstation all work slightly differently.

Big thanks to @tenthirtyam and @Stromweld for their help in getting these templates working.

Example Directory Structure

The source files are spread across multiple files:

• source.pkr.hcl contains the source block definition for the build image.
• variables.pkr.hcl contains a set of defined variables needed for building the image.
• build.pkr.hcl is the main entry point for Packer to build the VMware image defined in source.pkr.hcl.
• pkrvars/ contains a set of Packer variable definition files (*.pkrvars.hcl) partitioned by guest_os/vmware-version.

Running VMware Fusion Examples

Note

VMware Fusion 13 does not support lsilogic adapter types and require additional vmx_data configurations for supporting ARM based builds. Below are the adapter types and addition vmx_data configuration options that have been found to work.

vmx_data = {
"svga.autodetect"         = true
"usb_xhci.present"        = true
}
cdrom_adapter_type   = "sata"
disk_adapter_type    = "sata"

Please refer to the Fusion 13 pkvars.hcl file for exact details.

For Fusion 12 builds

packer init .
packer build -var-file=pkrvars/debian/fusion-12.pkrvars.hcl .

For Fusion 13 builds

packer init .
packer build -var-file=pkrvars/debian/fusion-13.pkrvars.hcl .